retirement question

[hapa17]

i tried the espn message boards, the espn online manuals, and even searching here, but cannot find an answer. in the off-season in franchise mode, how do you get past the Retirement Period? there's a list of guys, the first couple say they're retiring, the following say expiring (their contracts, i assume), and the rest are just there.

i released the guys retiring, decided whether to resign the guys who were expiring (but seeing that the Re-Signing Period is next, maybe this wasn't the place to do that), and just left the rest, but it doesn't seem to advance me. i don't get it. does it mean even those guys with contracts are threatening to retire?

if i hit start on the next phase of off-season, it asks if i want the computer to handle this part of off-season. i don't. sorry that i'm just getting to this part of the game now, but can someone clear this up for me? do i have to re-sign or release everyone on the retirement list, even tho it doesn't say they're gonna retire?

[bangpow]

If you've done everything you wanted with that section, you hit start and let the cpu the rest, which the cpu doesn't do anything ecept drop the players that are retiring if you haven't already.

[hapa17]

thanks man, i appreciate it.